Practice question · Select all that apply
Why did the reform coalition of the 1980s draw support from opposite political directions? Select every criticism that fed it.
Hints
- Three are real strands of the critique; one is a claim nobody established.
- The democratic critique came from a different direction than the others.
Show the answer
- A. Fiscal pressure after the post-1973 slowdown
- B. Public choice models of officials as budget-maximisers
- D. Democratic criticism that large bureaucracies are remote and unresponsive
Why
The fourth option is the one usually omitted from the story. Criticism of remote, standardised bureaucracy came from the left as well as the right and proposed participation and decentralisation rather than markets, and it is part of why the reform coalition was broad enough to succeed.
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